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In the real exam, is PS and DS about 50/50?, for instance if you are better in DS and not that good in PS can you still do well in the quant. section?
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It will again depend on the no. of difficult questions you answer correctly.
not on whether it is PS or DS.
bytheway
i have one similar query:
what if you are better at only one types of questions say PS... then as difficulty level raises does GMAC ask more DS questions?
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not on whether it is PS or DS.
bytheway
i have one similar query:
what if you are better at only one types of questions say PS... then as difficulty level raises does GMAC ask more DS questions?
Any experts here?
Stacey?
Mark?
Ian?
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dont worry ma'am
I am not high or drunk
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i am not an expert but in the actual exam i did find tough PS questions too. I got one on combinations and one on probability. The probability question was really tough. Btw, i dont remember any tough DS questions. But for some DS questions i did take more than 2 minutes.
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There are exactly 15 DS questions and 22 PS questions in every 37-question quant section - so you have a few more PS. You will see difficult questions of both types - just depends what mix you get on the test.
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so that means this ratio never change significantly even if you are performing too well in one of the types?Stacey Koprince wrote:There are exactly 15 DS questions and 22 PS questions in every 37-question quant section - so you have a few more PS. You will see difficult questions of both types - just depends what mix you get on the test.
I heard that proportion changes a bit for verbal section.. say if you are tackling CR well & SC poorly then it ll ask you more SC questions...
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The # of math questions of each type never changes - 15 DS, 22 PS, always. The # of each of the 3 types of verbal questions does vary, but they haven't said how the algorithm determines how many of each to give. It's probably a combination of multiple factors, including experimentals and the natural constraints of RC (you have to give a certain number of questions in a clump) - but I have no idea whether individual performance is one of them. Only the people who make it know - and they don't release that info.
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thanks for the info
still i have a feeling that it depends on the individual performance///
sigh i ll know about that once i d take my real test :twisted:
still i have a feeling that it depends on the individual performance///
sigh i ll know about that once i d take my real test :twisted:
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Just in - I just got the report from one of our instructors who took the test last month, and he did NOT have 22PS / 15DS. So they are starting to mess with the format - they just haven't made any formal announcement. I'll put a big notice on the main thread too.
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